I want to quit smoking, but all my friends always have weed or cigs. what can i !


Question: im a senior in high school. i have been smoking weed and cigs for a couple of years. now its all my friends do. when we hang out its assumed that we are going to smoke weed. if we dont have any weed then we smoke cigs. now i am starting to see some of the negitive effects happening to me. lately i have tried to slow down gradually. so far ive been pretty good with cigs limiting myself to one or 2 a day. id like to get that to 1 or 2 a week. as far as weed goes, i have smoked multiple times every day for about a year. i know that there is no way that can be good for me, but again its all we do. we smoke then do whatever ( witch is never that much).
its not as easy as just not hanging out with kids who smoke because almost everyone i know smokes includeing my best friend who i started smoking with. im truely in need of some good advise!!!


Answers: im a senior in high school. i have been smoking weed and cigs for a couple of years. now its all my friends do. when we hang out its assumed that we are going to smoke weed. if we dont have any weed then we smoke cigs. now i am starting to see some of the negitive effects happening to me. lately i have tried to slow down gradually. so far ive been pretty good with cigs limiting myself to one or 2 a day. id like to get that to 1 or 2 a week. as far as weed goes, i have smoked multiple times every day for about a year. i know that there is no way that can be good for me, but again its all we do. we smoke then do whatever ( witch is never that much).
its not as easy as just not hanging out with kids who smoke because almost everyone i know smokes includeing my best friend who i started smoking with. im truely in need of some good advise!!!

It is certainly a hard spot you are in...quitting smoking either is really difficult. For me, honestly--I kind of grew out of the pot. My drive was way down, and life started to just seem so blah. I also saw my memory going--literally. It took about a week off it to actually notice my brain becoming sharper again. So, for me, as I got older, I decided pot was only for people who didn't really have any plans in life. (I'm 33 with 3 kids, now!)

I'll get to my point, I promise!! :)

Quitting smoking cigarettes was BY FAR harder for me to quit. And I did quit for 2 or 3 years at a time. (I started experimenting at 13) I slid right back into that pack a day, real quick. The last time I quit was when I found out I was pregnant with my daughter. That was 3 years or so ago, and I almost never have a craving for tobacco. If you are down to 2 a day, make sure you don't build it back up if you are cutting down on pot. Pot is more emotionally addicting, but cigarettes are emotionally, and VERY physically addicting.

Now to the friend thing. I know how hard it is!! Maybe tell your best friend that you want to just take a break, because you are feeling unmotivated, and foggy. Tell him you'd like to detox for 2 weeks, just to get right in your head...

My friends that are still daily pot smokers and are 30-50 years old (not many, most grew out of it, and needed to really get jobs, be parents, etc.) still take a week or so off every now and then--It really lowers their tolerance, too, and makes the habit cheaper!

This feels like an odd answer for me, because I really believe that to actually quit, you need a break from your friends who do it...I just hibernated for a month, and became good friends with my TV, and started walking. Exercise helps a lot. You will notice yourself getting healthier the longer you are clean, and it helps you realize how unhealthy all those toxins are for your lungs...remember there's no filter on pot...

My best friend and I partied together on and off since we were 14. There were times when one or the other of us had to back off because we had to make a change. But here we are, 20 years later, both grown with families, and healthy, and close as ever.

If you don't feel close enough with your best friend to tell him exactly how you feel about things (maybe he would be up to the challenge of doing a 2 week detox, too?) don't expect him to support you in your decision. He may feel threatened or abandoned by your actions, which is normal for someone in an addiction. Change in another person makes them have to look at themselves. If he is really your friend, he will understand, even if he doesn't like it.

I'm so sorry for rambling! If you try to quit, and find yourself unable to--(BTW, you will have some sleepless nights trying to detox from pot...) You may want to look into a 12 step program like NA. There are actually huge numbers of young people who are there just like you...for pot. I found it (I was 19...) filled with crazy young people who were a lot of fun, but were united by the fact that they were not high.

I hope there may have been a tiny bit in here to give you hope. Good luck to you, and know that your choice to quit is a very worthy one. Many jobs now drug test--and if you aren't planning to go to college (you may get some drive to do that if you quit, though!!) you can't even get a job as a bagger at the grocery store if you smoke pot!

Maybe hang out with smarter people?

Simple, change friends, they are losers, you no longer wish to be one. this is typical of people that start to "Wake Up" to reality that there is much more to life then what you have been doing, CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!Move on. Take marshal arts, Yoga, etc, your new friend will just appear from the places that you will visit.

Dear Ryan,

If you have only been smoking for a few years and you know how bad smoking is for you then you should try and quit. You are still so young yet, your body will bounce right back to normal almost immediately and for smoking pot you should only do so if you feel like it! Please dont smoke just because your friends do. If they are your true Friends, they Will respect your decision and respect you as a individual also !

take niquiten and try to stay away from those people and fake ill and stuff to get over smokin =)

Well, you could try being logical with them. "We're gonna be done with school soon and have to find real jobs, and all real jobs make you take drug tests, so I think we should stop" Yeah, it sounds silly, but in all honesty if they're just pulling you back down why do you care what they think? Should focus on doing good for you, and if that means cutting ties and building new, better, ones, then that's what you need to do. Even if they dont agree with you though, being good friends they should be willing to not smoke around you, atleast until you've built up enough of a mental strength to stay away from doing it. Hope everything goes well for you, best of luck.

They say that nicotine is the most addictive substance, compared to all the other usual substances around in society.

Since they don't have "cigarettes anonymous", as a matter of fact, those "anonymous" places replace their "drug of choice" with an exceedingly abundant overdose of cigarettes and coffee.
I guess the only thing there is, are those patches and gums, and stuff like that.

Myself, I'm not planning to quit smoking until I find myself a "hottie" with nice long pencil erasers, so I can just "puff" on those all the time. If she's really "hot", I should still blow smoke back out.

if you really want to give up . it wont make any defendants if your with your mates or not . true friends will support you .





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